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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Platygastroidea » Scelionidae » Telenominae » Trissolcus » flavipes species group (Trissolcus flavipes species group)
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eggs & fly - Trissolcus
Copyright © 2007 David E. Reed

eggs & fly - Trissolcus
Chanhassen, Carver County, Minnesota, USA
June 4, 2007
Size: 1.8mm fly, 1.1mm eggs
Lateral view detail of fly

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Contributed by David E. Reed on 4 June, 2007 - 10:24pm
Last updated 14 December, 2012 - 4:08pm

Moved
Moved from Trissolcus.
… v belov, 14 December, 2012 - 4:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Platygastridae.
… v belov, 22 December, 2009 - 3:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scelionidae.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 October, 2009 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies.
… Beatriz Moisset, 18 September, 2007 - 7:26pm login or register to post comments

Scelionidae
This is an egg parasitoid. It lays its eggs within the eggs of other insects - it is able to avoid the immune system present in larval stages. The eggs have that ring around the top, which seems typical of Hemiptera.
… Andy Boring, 5 June, 2007 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

...
That fly looks more like a parasitic wasp to me. Probably a Chalcidoid. The eggs remind me of those of a stinkbug,
e.g.:
… Sean McCann, 4 June, 2007 - 11:28pm login or register to post comments

 
...
Here is an example: http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/info/biocont.html
… Sean McCann, 4 June, 2007 - 11:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Trissolcus basalis ?
Perhaps this species:http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resources/Grzimek_insects/Hymenoptera/Trissolcus_basalis.jpg/view.html
… Sean McCann, 4 June, 2007 - 11:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Wasp
Thanks, Sean. The links are very informative.
… David E. Reed, 5 June, 2007 - 12:36am login or register to post comments

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